Gay Cleveland through the s: The clubs, queens and mic that brought gay culture to the mastream

Contents:

• THE BEST CLEVELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CLEVELAND
• CLEVELAND'S GAY BARS EVOLVE AGE OF GREATER TOLERANCE
• GAY NIGHTLIFE CLEVELAND
• GAY BARS IN CLEVELAND
• THE DOWNTOWNER - EPISO 11: WHERE ARE CLEVELAND'S GAYS?
• 7 BT GAY BARS & RTRANTS CLEVELAND, OH
• GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
• MOVG TO LGBTQ CLEVELAND, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

THE BEST CLEVELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CLEVELAND

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Insi one of Cleveland's first and most fluential gay bars: Opened 1946 by a woman named Gloria Lenihan, the upsle Cadillac Lounge served straight clients durg the day and gay men at night. PetsStatisticsArts and CultureDavey Wavey Travel BlogEvent SpotlightTop 10s, Rat and ReviewsGaytnsOfferCiseInterviewsThe Gay Travel GuCarlos MeliaVios We LoveNews. GAY BARS IN CLEVEAND have been existence sce at least the 1940s and have served as important s for the cy’s LGBTQ muny to socialize, anize, and distribute rmatn and rourc.

CLEVELAND'S GAY BARS EVOLVE AGE OF GREATER TOLERANCE

GRAUER, a bar lled Ltle Ted’s, which was suated unr a rtrant of the same name near the CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, as well as a bar lled Mac & Jerry’s, which was not exclively gay but was a popular spot for the cy’s dtrial workers. In the 1950s and 1960s, Cleveland’s gay bar scene grew nsirably, as did the number of bars that were not exclively gay, but gay-iendly.

Ale’s Bar at East 115th Street and Euclid Avenue was one such spot, where stunts om the nearby CASE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY would gather alongsi members of Cleveland’s gay muny.

The Kg’s Room CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, suated at Taylor and Cedar, had an almost exclively gay patronage, as did the Shaker Club SHAKER SQUARE. The CADILLAC LOUNGE closed late 1970, but other bars owned by Gloria Lenihan like the Pickwood Lounge on Clifton Avenue remaed popular spots for Cleveland’s gay and lbian muny. Durg this time, the area around Clifton Boulevard was already a signifint part of the gay bar scene that clud other venu the Nantucket Lounge, across om the Pickwood.

GAY NIGHTLIFE CLEVELAND

As the gay liberatn took hold Cleveland the 1970s, members of the gay muny created new gatherg spac that served as alternativ to the gay bars. In 1977, the openg of the offic of LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND provid a space for members of the gay muny to socialize, anize polilly, and share rourc and rmatn.

GAY BARS IN CLEVELAND

Gay bars mataed their prence Cleveland, and they were signifint for gay publitns like HIGH GEAR which ed them as pots of distributn, but they were no longer the only plac which to socialize openly and safely. Although Cleveland’s gay bars have been valuable spac for members of the gay muny to gather, their patrons have not always been treated an equable manner.

Discrimatn agast Black patrons at gay bars has been a signifint problem that many members of the gay muny have mobilized agast. The Midwt Regnal Discrimatn Rponse System, a project of Black and Whe Men Together, formed orr to report stanc of racial discrimatn wh the gay and lbian muny and discrimatn agast the muny.

In 1985, the anizatn mobilized agast the Rz, a bar Cleveland that accepted members of the gay muny on Sundays, which had been the subject of plats of discrimatn agast Black men and women attemptg to enter. In 1977, reporters for the PLAIN DEALER wrg an article on the gay bar scene noted the bar’s ntued polici agast admtg women.

THE DOWNTOWNER - EPISO 11: WHERE ARE CLEVELAND'S GAYS?

Today (2022), although there are numero spac Cleveland for LGBTQ people to gather, gay bars still have a strong prence. While early gay bars were often downtown or on Cleveland’s East Si, most gay bars today are suated on the cy’s Wt Si. The clu Vibe Bar & Pat on Lora Avenue around Wt 117th Street, Twist on Clifton Boulevard, Cocktails and The Hawk on Detro Avenue, Sha Cleveland’s OLD BROOKLYN neighborhood, and the Leather Stalln, which holds the rerd as Cleveland’s olst operatg gay bar.

Like other stutns, gay bars have had discrimatory polici which at tim have served as pots of mobilizatn for gay activists who sought to change them.

While gay bars are no longer the only plac for LGBTQ Clevelanrs to safely gather, they rema important stutns for the muny today.

7 BT GAY BARS & RTRANTS CLEVELAND, OH

Judgg by the photo and the overall sign athetic of the poster, looked kda gay, like the New York Cy Gay Men’s Chos.

GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM

Some quick rearch on my iPhone revealed that the North Coast Men’s Chos is, ed, a gay men’s chos, though I didn’t enunter the actual words “gay" or “LGBT" until I navigated to their webse's “About” sectn. Another cur realizatn h me after my first year livg downtown after 22 years New York Cy: the number of gay men I’ve met socially Downtown Cleveland n be unted on one hand.

Not that I equented any of the six gay bars wh four blocks of my Midtown Manhattan apartment, but I’ve always felt that gay bars stood for more than jt drkg.

MOVG TO LGBTQ CLEVELAND, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

It’s a safe haven where gay people n mp up and share mararie over cktails wh others who rry srs om beg ma fun of, margalized, rejected by iends and fay, forbidn om donatg blood, cimated by a vis and other classics of gay life.

When I was a young, hly out-of-the-closet 21-year-old visg my home om Boston or New York durg summers and holidays the early 1990s, there were a few gay bars downtown Cleveland. Acrdg to an article , Cleveland once had up to two dozen gay bars, wh many of them loted the Warehoe District and on St. Today, there are none (though we n blame datg and hookup apps for much of that all over the untry) "gayborhood" that existed Oh Cy for at least a , along W.

[Jacquele Zema]As a gay man livg downtown, I fd the sheer lack of any discernible, intifiable gay prence on street level  the cy’s re to be odd and, at tim, alienatg.